The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21
ENDOF THE LEGISLATURE
THE MEMBERS MAKE A RUSH FOR
THE OUTGOING TRAINS.

THE OUTGOING TRAINS.
President Davidson of the Senate and
the Two Speakers of the House Pre-
scented with Valuable Souvenirs The
Routine Work of the Last Day in
the Two Houses.
ATLANTA, GA, Oct. 20.-In the Senate
this morning Mr.. Brantley introduced a
resolution authorizing the Speaker of the
House and President of the Senate to re-
main over four days after the close of the
session to sign bills and also a resolution au-
thorizing the Secretary of the Senate and
the Clerk of the House, and certain members
of the House and Senate, to remain over TO
attend to unfinished business. The resolu-
tions were agreed to.
The resolution authorizing the payment
of the last semi-annual interest on certain
bonds of the State was adopted.
The following bills were passed:
To incorporate the Blue Ridge and At
lautic Railroad company
To Incorporate the Planters Bank of
Ellaville.
To establish public schools in the town of
Washington.
Providing registration laws for Dodge
county.
The bill relating to the Marietta and
North Georgia Railroad Company was, on
motion of Mr.. Butt, taken up and CON
sidered.
Mr.. Northcutt advocated the bill in a
strong speech. In reply to Mr.. Lewis
charge that the measure passed last session
was obtained by fraud, he asked Mr. Lewis
if he would charge the honored President
of the Senate with engaging in fraudulent
schemes for Gov. Mcdaniel Mr.. North
cult offered a substitute which provided
that the whole question be submitted to the
Governor and Attorney General.
Mr. Hand, of the Eighth district, offered
an amendment providing that the Treasurer
be prohibited from turning over any OF the
bonds of the road until the question had
been fully settled.
Mr. Lewis opposed the bill and the substi-
tute offered by Mr.. Northcutt
THE CHARGE REITERATED.
Mr. Butt, in regard to what Mr.. North
cult had said about the measure being passed
by fraud, as charged by Mr.. Lewis, said he
would reiterate what Mr.. Lewis had said,
and that the act of 1885 was obtained by
fraudulent representations, and that the
persons concerned in this road had for years
been logging the Legislature about this
matter.
Mr.. Lewis offered substitute referring
the matter to the next Legislature He
spoke at some length in support of his sub
Stitute.
Mr. Butt said that it wa a reflection on
member who had aots' for the bill TO have
it repealed. The ti'%ta is, that half we have
done ought to be repealed.
Mr. Brantley said the question now be-
fore the Legislature was whether or not the
Legislature had right to pass the bill now
before the Senate. He said that the au-
thority and power of one Legislature was
70 hat ~ 4bat
the present Legislature had no right to
repudiate the action taken by the last
Legislature in reg0~d to the contract be-
tween the State and the Marietta and North
Georgia railroad. He said that the charge
of fraud was without foundation, and Mr..
Butt has failed to bring forth any evidence
to sustain his assertion, and that the only
thing left for the Senator from the Twenty
fourth district was to charge the individual
members with fraud, and that he would not
dare do.
Mr.. Powell called the previous question
and the call was sustained.
On Mr.. Northcutt's amendment the yeas
were 81 and the nays Is. On the passage of
the bill the yeas were so.
THE MARIETTA AND NORTH GEORGIA GRANT
The Senate passed a substitute for the
House bill repeating the grant made to the
North Georgia railroad under a resolution
of 1885 for bonds amounting to $50. 900
The substitute refers the whole matter to
the Governor, and authorizes him-first, to
ascertain if vested contract rights have ac-
orued to the Marietta and North Georgia
railroad under said resolution, and if not,
then TO investigate and ascertain if the
facts upon which the resolution claims to
have been passed and the laws
under which the railroad claims
equities and to settle these claims, if any,
to the amount of the bonds; and if not wen
founded to proceed in collecting the bonds.
The House amended this substitute by add
ing ''that if the Governor ascertains that he
has no constitutional authority over the
subject matter, to hold the bonds until the
converting of the session of the next Gen
eral Assembly" The Senate concurred in
this amendment.